Artist	Song
Bob Dylan	Positively 4th Street
from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1965)
Simon & Garfunkel	Bleecker Street
from The Essential Simon & Garfunkel (1964)
Tim Hardin	If I Were a Carpenter
from Hang On to a Dream: The Verve Recordings (1994)
Woody Guthrie	Hard Traveling
from Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings Vol. 3 (1964)
Tom Paxton	The Last Thing On My Mind
from The Best of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound: The Elektra Years (1964)
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry	Walk On
from Blues Masters: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (1957)
Pete Seeger	Little Boxes
from Headlines & Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs (1999)
Fred Neil	Bleecker & MacDougal
from Bleecker and McDougal (1965)

Comment:

In the early '60s, the folk scene that flowered in New York's Greenwich Village was powered by a generation fed up with prefabricated pop — a generation that yearned for an honest, "authentic" sound that spoke to the soul. Pumped up on rough-and-tumble Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl ballads like "Hard Traveling," and "message" songs like "If I Had a Hammer" by Woody's pals the Weavers, the new folkies from Simon & Garfunkel to Ian & Sylvia hit the coffeehouses around Bleecker and MacDougal armed with acoustic guitars and trusty old tunes. But when Peter, Paul And Mary took folk to the masses by adding their honeyed harmonies to "Blowin' in the Wind," a [i]new[/i] folk ballad by some skinny kid named Dylan, the world blew wide open.

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